Analysis of up up and away



Bend your paper wings
and make origami shapes
I'll smooth out the lines
that rough wind brings
/first flight risks will submerge
and taste a bit like dirt
but you will follow suns
the right road will not diverge
/believe me you'll be fine


Scheme ABCADEFDG
Poetic Form Nonet (22%)
Metre 11101 0111 11101 1111 111101 010111 111101 0111101 011111
Closest metre Iambic trimeter
Characters 230
Words 44
Sentences 1
Stanzas 1
Stanza Lengths 9
Lines Amount 9
Letters per line (avg) 21
Words per line (avg) 5
Letters per stanza (avg) 191
Words per stanza (avg) 44
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Submitted on May 01, 2011

Modified on March 05, 2023

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